Saturday, November 30, 2013

This site contains information about the prehistoric archaeology of
the Aegean. Through a series of lessons and illustrations, it traces the
cultural evolution of humanity in the Aegean basin from the era of
hunting and gathering (Palaeolithic-Mesolithic) through the early
village farming stage (Neolithic) and the formative period of Aegean
civilization into the age of the great palatial cultures of Minoan Crete
and Mycenaean Greece.

There are several ways to navigate through the materials. You can:

Click on one of the modules listed on the right side of this screen
to view a content area. Some links will take you to an information rich
page and others will present a series of hyperlinks to a series of
information pages.

Hover your mouse over the menu item at the top of the page to
display a listing of sub-pages in each of the modules. Click on a title
in the listing to display the content page.

Click on the thumbnail images in the Galleries area on the right side of the screen to view image collections.

Type a key word(s) in the search box and press the return button on your keyboard to find selected content.

Some of the other features available on the site are:

The ability to enlarge images to get a closer look at the details.

If viewing the images in a gallery window, click the Full Screen link at the bottom of the page to enlarge the image.

If viewing an image on a page, double-click on the image to open a
larger version of the image in a new window, or hover your mouse over
the image until a small square is displayed. The square will show an
enlargement of the image and can be drug around the image to show
enlargements of other section by moving the mouse.

Selected words in the text have been defined in the Glossary. You
can click on the Glossary item in the menu to view term definitions, or
hover your mouse over words within the text that have dotted lines
under them to display associated definitions.

You can comment on resources or add to the content collection by
registering on the site. All comments, suggestions and additions will go
through an approval process before they are added.

A permanent list of digital resources in archaeology and related fields.

Directory of Graduate Programs in the United States and Canada
The AIA Committee on Archaeology in Higher Education has composed this
directory to for persons intending to apply for admission to a
graduate-level program in Classical/Mediterranean archaeology and/or a
related field, including Near Eastern and Egyptian archaeology, the
study of Classical/ancient art, museum studies, and art conservation.

The Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum (CSL) is a collaborative project among scholars from a variety of disciplines with the main purpose of creating a digital library of Latin literature, spanning from the earliest epigraphic remains to the Neo-Latinists of the eighteenth century. Toward this end, we maintain an up-to-date catalogue of all Latin texts that are currently available online, making CSL a single, centralized resource for locating Latin literature on the internet.In addition to serving as a gateway to texts on other sites, we are also actively working to expand the online corpus, providing hundreds of original Latin texts and translations. To ensure the overall quality of these resources, all submissions to the CSL are submitted to thorough proofing, but we ask our visitors to double-check our listings and alert us to any of the errors or omissions that inevitably remain. If you would like to help contribute to our project, please visit our submissions page for more information.

Friday, November 29, 2013

Nine volumes of the French series of 'dated and datable' manuscripts are
now available online on Galica, thanks to an agreement between the CNRS
and the BnF. The full announcement came from Dominique Stutzmann of the
IRHT, PI of Oriflamms and blogger on manuscripts and palaeography (among other talents)...

The list of volumes available online is as follows:Catalogue des manuscrits en écriture latine : portant des indications de date, de lieu ou de copiste

The iDAI.bookbrowser integrates documents in the object structure of
Arachne, providing direct links between “real world” objects and their
textual descriptions. It also helps to overcome the isolated
presentation of books and contextualises them against the background of
their cultural environments.

The
iDAI.bookbrowser's most important components are digitized prints from
the 16th to 19th centuries, currently about 2000. Every title is
biographically referenced in the ZENON DAI and linked to its record in
the iDAI.bookbrowser. These books belong to the holdings of the Rome
Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), the Cologne
Digital Archeology Laboratory (CoDArchLab) at the Archaeological
Institute of the University of Cologne, the Cologne University Library
and to the Winckelmann-Institute at Stendal.

As another component thematically coherent convolutes are edited and
contextualised. These include the photo album of baron Max von
Oppenheim, a very valuable document for regional studies, or the
handwritten inventory of the photograph collection of the Rome
Department of the German Archaeological Institute.

Additionally, the iDAI.Bookbrowser is linked with external web
portals like the virtual library Propylaeum specialized in classical and
ancient studies as well as the Central Register of Digitised Prints
(zvdd). Thus, its contents cannot be retrieved only directly via Arachne
and ZENON but can be also found and retrieved through different other
web portals. In this way the iDAI.Bookbrowser's web presence is growing
progressively.
Furthermore, the iDAI.Bookbrowser supports the Metadata Encoding and
Transmission Standard (METS) due to its OAI-interface. Its programming
takes place at the Cologne Digital Archeology Laboratory. The Berlin
head office of the German Archeological Institute as well as the Faculty
of Arts and Humanities of the University of Cologne provide financing
for this project.

Thursday, November 28, 2013

FARLI, The Foundation for Archaeological Research in the Land of Israel (RA), was founded on November 10th, 2009, as a non-profit organization aiming to advance and promote archaeological research in Israel, support archaeological projects, help preserve and develop archaeological and heritage sites, develop and promote new technological tools in the service of archaeology, and support research concerning the archaeology and history of the southern Levant.In this spirit FARLI founded this site, aiming to become a valuable tool for archaeologists, archaeology students and archaeology enthusiasts world wide. Here you will find a growing database of ancient pottery assemblages, divided into the regions and periods in which they were found, subdivided into type categories including all the valuable information we can provide such as; a list of archaeological sites in which they were found, special features, measurements and a bibliographical reference.The main focus of this site will be on the pottery of the Southern Levant, with special emphasis on the pottery of the Holy Land throughout the periods. However we aim to develop this site to include other geographical regions in the Ancient Near East complete with their own unique chronology.If you wish to help us with additional data please send the material to: data@farli.org

FARLI is a non-profit organization and needs your support to continue operating. If you wish to contribute to us please follow this link or the link appearing on the left. We thank you and hope you will find this site both enjoyable and enriching.

Era Lev, Head of the Rose Archives for
Textiles and Costumes, Shenkar CollegeClaudette Zorea, Academic Supervisor at the Fashion and Jewelry Department,
Bezalel Academy of Art and DesignProf. Dana Arieli, Dean of the Design Faculty, Holon Institute of
Technology

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.